FROM MUHAMMAD BUKAR ,KANO
A High Court sitting in Kano and presided over by Justice Jamilu Shehu Suleiman has quashed the removal of Seven Councillors who impeached the Kumbotso Local Government Chairman Kabiru Ado Panshekara.
In an experte Interim Order, the presiding Judge restrained the local government Chairman his Secretary, and the State Assembly from tampering with the tenure of the Councilors whatsoever.
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The Councillors seven of them had sometimes last month impeached the Kumbotso Local government Chairman Kabiru Ado Panshekra for alleged gross violation of constitutional orders and misappropriation of huge millions of Nora Council Funds
However, the Chairman was alleged to have connived with the State Assembly to not only stopped the impeachment but moves to sack the perpetrators of the impeachment.
But in an interim order granted to the Plaintiffs and Applicants the Presiding Judge Justice Jamilu Shehu, the Defendants/Respondents from interfering with the Constitutional rights, functions, and duties of the applicants as Councillors representing their respective wards.
The Court also directed the Chairman and all others to allow the Plaintiffs/Applicants to have access to their respective offices and the 3rd Defendants, the Council secretariat to continue discharging their Constitutional duties and functions as Councilors pending the hearing and determination of the motions on notice
The Court restrained the local government Chairman Kabiru Ado Panshekara from taking any further actions and staying all actions pertaining to suspension or removal of the Councilors from their respective offices pending the hearing and determination of the motions on notice
